Member Fees: $99
Non-Member Fees: $149
St. Louis, MO | November 19, 2026 | 1:30PM-3:30PM CST
**Early-bird pricing ends November 6!**
FMLA gives you a clear runway: twelve weeks, defined rules, a known end date. Then the leave runs out, and the employee still isn’t ready to come back. That’s where the questions get harder, and where a lot of employers get stuck.
Burt Garland, Shareholder at Ogletree Deakins, returns with the next session in the Compliance Through Case Study series. The summer sessions closed with an employer that had given thirty weeks of leave and then had to decide what came next. This session starts there. Through real cases, Burt walks through what happens after FMLA is exhausted: when the ADA takes over, whether more leave can be a reasonable accommodation, how the interactive process should run, and how to make return-to-work decisions that hold up.
Every case is taught the same way: the facts, the ruling, what the employer got right, what it got wrong, and what it means for your policies heading into the new year. A short pre-session brief arrives about a week ahead, so you walk in already oriented to the facts. Phil Brandt, AAIM’s CEO, joins Burt to guide the conversation and bring audience questions into the discussion. No need to have attended the summer sessions.
What this session covers:
✅ Identify when an employee’s exhausted FMLA leave triggers obligations under the ADA, including when additional leave may be a reasonable accommodation.
✅ Apply a defensible interactive process after FMLA ends, including what to communicate, request and document.
✅ Evaluate maximum-leave and full-release return policies for legal risk.
✅ Determine return-to-work options under the ADA, including modified duty and reassignment, and how to document the decision.
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HRCI Accreditation:
Recertification Credit Hours: 2.0
Specified Credit Hours: HR
SHRM Accreditation:
Professional Development Credits Awarded: 2.0
CPE Accreditation:
Professional Development Credits Awarded: 2.0 Recommended
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